The NY Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Institutions

Establish a cybersecurity program based on periodic risk assessments and designed to identify and assess risks; protect information systems and nonpublic information; detect, respond to, and recover from cyber events; and fulfill all reporting obligations. 

• • Rapid7 Consulting offers a variety of Program Development services designed to help you build, maintain, and measure the core cybersecurity functions of your program. Program development offerings are available for vulnerability management, risk management, incident response, security policies, and security program metrics.
    
    
  • Using InsightIDR and our ability to correlate LDAP, Active Directory, and DHCP not only helps identify and keep track of all assets in your environment, but can also identify unauthorized access and other malicious behavior through our user behavior analytics, deception technology, and agents.   
    
    
  • Rapid7 InsightVM allows you to conduct frequent vulnerability assessments and identify the assets that pose the most risk by using exploitability, malware exposure, and vulnerability age to show you which assets would be easiest to breach in an attack (and how to fix them). Live dashboards allow you to quickly assess how your overall program is doing and where risk is being reduced.

Create and maintain written policies and procedures for the protection of information systems and nonpublic information based on the company’s risk assessment. 

• The security policy Program Development offering evaluates the comprehensiveness of your current set of cybersecurity policies and provides you with new or updated policy language that will set the standard for the implementation of security controls within your organization.

Designate a CISO to oversee and implement the cybersecurity program. The CISO may be employed by the regulated entity, an affiliate, or a third-party service provider.

• Rapid7’s Virtual CISO service provides your organization with trusted security advisors to help guide security efforts, strategy, and execution plans. The Virtual CISO works as an integral part of your security team and provides extensive experience in information security program assessment, development, and management.

The cybersecurity program must include continuous monitoring or annual penetration testing and bi-annual vulnerability assessments.

• Penetration Testing Services from Rapid7 give you a real-world look at how attackers could exploit your vulnerabilities – and guidance on how to stop them. Our team not only performs more than 1,000 penetration tests every year, but is also dedicated to ongoing security research, making them as close to real-world hackers as you can get.
  
  
• Metasploit Pro makes it easy for novices and experts alike to conduct end-to-end penetration tests; by doing penetration testing in-house, you save money in the long run and can integrate regular penetration testing into your other security processes.
  
  
• InsightVM, Rapid7’s leading vulnerability management solution, allows you to continuously assess, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities. It uses a combination of agents, Adaptive Security, and connection to our SONAR research project to provide continuous monitoring of assets for new vulnerabilities. 

Maintain systems designed to recover material financial transactions following an event and audit trails to detect and respond to cybersecurity events.

• Rapid7’s SIEM solution, InsightIDR, processes all events against over 65 user behavior analytics and other techniques to detect cybersecurity events. Raw logs and endpoint data are ingested and enriched so they can be searched after any cybersecurity event. All activity is searchable for 90 days by default, but this is configurable, and archives can be marked for indefinite holding in cold storage, per the client's request.
  
  
• InsightIDR can flag systems as restricted assets, so that the solution will alert you on any change in behavior. This includes suspicious authentications, users with unexpected privilege escalations, and even approved users remotely accessing the asset from a new source asset. Specific users can be added to a watchlist. This will lower the threshold of the user behavior analytics on any alert that is generated.

Implement secure development practices and procedures for evaluating and testing the security of applications.

• Rapid7's application security solution, AppSpider, crawls, interprets, and tests today’s modern and complex apps, providing you with interactive and actionable vulnerability reports. 

Conduct bi-annual risk assessments that consider threats, particular risks to the entity, and an examination of existing controls in the context of identified risk.

• Rapid7’s Cyber Security Maturity Assessment evaluates the effectiveness of your cybersecurity controls and provides you with a prioritized and risk-based security roadmap, as well as the detailed recommendations that allow you to move your security program forward with confidence.
  
  
• Metasploit Pro can be used to conduct various forms of risk assessments throughout the year, from standard network penetration tests to social engineering and phishing campaigns. It can also be used to test that the rest of your security controls and programs are working properly and blocking/detecting the attacks they should.

Utilize qualified cybersecurity personnel or an “Affiliate or a Third-Party Service Provider” sufficient to manage the organization’s risks and to perform or oversee the performance of the core cybersecurity functions.

• Rapid7 Managed Detection and Response (MDR) offering becomes your SOC, staffed by some of the industry’s most regarded security analysts and a threat intelligence operation. Rapid7 MDR is powered by our InsightIDR solution, which combines the power of user behavior analytics, endpoint detection and response (EDR), and log analysis to unify security data in order to detect, investigate, and remediate incidents.

Establish a written incident response plan for responding to and recovering from cybersecurity events.

• The incident response Program Development offering evaluates your environment to rate your response capability and provides relevant, business-based recommendations to help you design and meet your incident response program goals.
  
  
• Rapid7 Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is your SOC, monitoring your environment and ready to pivot to incident response at the first sign of a breach.
  
  
• Rapid7 Consulting provides Incident Response Services to help in the event of a breach. Our team is ready to collaborate closely with your in-house team to detect threats, document findings, and recommend the right remediation activities to help ensure attackers are out and can’t find their way back in.